I can say from my experience that while it's not Guitar Hero or Rock Band that keeps me from practicing guitar, the author's example of psychedelic music is an

I can say from my experience that while it's not Guitar Hero or Rock Band that keeps me from practicing guitar, the author's example of psychedelic music is an apt one. The sheer amount of guitar material available to me is almost paralyzing. There really is no scarcity to help motivate me. I'm borrowing my friend's guitar and he burned a couple instructional DVDs for me. There are tabs online for just about any song you can think of. There are hundreds of instructional and example videos on YouTube. When I plug the guitar into my Mac I've already got a little recording studio and an amp with more settings than I care to know about and 30 different guitars. It's never been easier to learn guitar. Except that for some reason the ease of it all makes me take it for granted and even makes me bored. I'm just a quick search away from hundreds of videos of people who play better than I could ever hope to. Sometimes it feels like everyone and their dog already knows how to play except for me. While I ponder the futility of it, I get distracted by all the other neat stuff that I can learn. I have to consciously fight laziness. There are so many easy and fun things to do nowadays that it takes some extra discipline to focus. I like to think I'm succeeding. Sometimes I start out working on my personal project and then a little while later here I am responding to someone's interesting comment on an interesting article. There is an interesting problem in a society like this. I've lost too many friends and family to World of Warcraft to deny it. Perhaps it's not worse than the problems faced by earlier generations, but it's definitely different.